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According to my neighbour who owns a Tesla he had to take it to a Tesla dealership in order to replace one of the headlights because there are non-standard design. So even if he could get the part from Tesla the mechanic wouldn't have been able to change it because they wouldn't have the tools.
The few things I needed repaired on my model 3 was just fixed by my local mechanic, who also did the yearly brake-maintenance. Once I bought original parts from Tesla and had my own mechanic change it, but they've also used 3rd party unoriginal parts they sourced themselves without issues.
I don't know which model your neighbor has, but for model 3 at least there are lights from 3rd party manufacturers available.